List of the best Henry King movies: Twelve O'Clock High(1949), O. Henry's Full House(1952), She Goes to War(1929), Remember the Day(1941), Stella Dallas(1925), Prince of Foxes(1949), Seventh Heaven(1937), The Winning of Barbara Worth(1926), The Bravados(1958), The White Sister(1923), The Black Swan(1942), State Fair(1933) ... ...
War, Drama
USA
1949
132 Minutes
Director
Gregory Peck Dean Jagger Gary Merrill Hugh Marlowe Millard Mitchell Bob Arthur Paul Stewart John Kellogg Robert Patten Lee MacGregor
pilot military officer soldier patriotic thrilling emotional england military base airplane horrors of war world war ii air raids aviation quest sacrifice 1940s
A hard-as-nails general takes over a bomber unit suffering from low morale and whips them into fighting shape.
Drama
USA
1952
117 Minutes
Henry King Henry Hathaway Fred Allen Anne Baxter Charles Laughton Jeanne Crain Farley Granger Oscar Levant Jean Peters
kidnapper criminal abductee husband wife dying person charming amusing united states kidnapping ransom illness christmas husband/wife relationship adventure discovery 1950s
John Steinbeck introduces a quintet of five of O. Henry's most celebrated stories from his New York Period (1902-1910) in this anthology film.
Drama
USA
1929
87 Minutes
Director
Eleanor Boardman Edmund Burns Agostino Borgato John Holland Alma Rubens Al St. John Glen Walters Margaret Seddon Yola d'Avril Evelyn Hall Dina Smirnova
A young woman disguises herself as a man and follows her fiancéé into the trenches during World War I to find out what war is really like.
Romance
USA
1941
85 Minutes
Director
schoolteacher wife husband presidential candidate student melodramatic heartwarming moving indiana small town school banquet hall washington, d.c. teaching scandal world war i loss politics marriage sacrifice
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.
Drama
USA
1925
108 Minutes
Director
Stella, a small town girl, marries socialite Stephen Dallas, a man with whom she has nothing in common. The whole thing is a failure; after the birth of their daughter, Laurel, the Dallases... See full summary »
Adventure
USA
1949
107 Minutes
Director
Tyrone Power Orson Welles Wanda Hendrix Marina Berti Everett Sloane Katina Paxinou Felix Aylmer Leslie Bradley
ambassador nobleman count wife sister thrilling italy provincial town venice, italy power struggle corruption revolution torture love metamorphosis rescue rise renaissance
An unscrupulous agent for the Borgias suffers a change of heart when asked to betray a noble count and his much younger, very beautiful wife.
Romance
USA
1937
102 Minutes
Director
Simone Simon James Stewart Jean Hersholt Gale Sondergaard Gregory Ratoff J. Edward Bromberg John Qualen Victor Kilian Thomas Beck Sig Ruman
sewer cleaner girl priest sister neighbor friend engaging moving uplifting paris café apartment hospital trenches church faith love devotion family violence
A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the seventh floor, and then marches away to ... See full summary »
Drama, Romance, Western
USA
1926
89 Minutes
Director
Ronald Colman Vilma Banky Charles Lane Paul McAllister E.J. Ratcliffe Gary Cooper Clyde Cook Erwin Connelly Sam Blum Ed Brady Fred Esmelton
While building an irrigation system for a Southwestern desert community, an engineer vies with a local cowboy for the affections of a rancher's daughter.
Western
USA
1958
98 Minutes
Director
Gregory Peck Joan Collins Stephen Boyd Albert Salmi Henry Silva Kathleen Gallant Barry Coe George Voskovec Herbert Rudley Lee Van Cleef Ada Carrasco
cowboy outlaw ex-girlfriend daughter young woman gritty tense suspenseful wild west new mexico small town ranch prairie kidnapping chase rape murder mission revenge discovery
A man is chasing four outlaws who killed his wife and finds them in a small town's jail, but they escape to Mexico.
Romance, Drama
USA
1923
143 Minutes
Director
Lillian Gish Ronald Colman Gail Kane J. Barney Sherry Charles Lane Juliette La Violette Alfredo Bertone
heiress italian soldier half sister father love interest nun passionate melodramatic uplifting italy family estate convent front lines church middle east inheritance sibling rivalry battle roman catholic church star-crossed lovers
A young woman becomes a nun when she believes her sweetheart has been killed, but things get complicated when he returns alive.
Adventure
USA
1942
85 Minutes
Director
Tyrone Power Maureen O'Hara Laird Cregar Thomas Mitchell George Sanders Anthony Quinn George Zucco Edward Ashley Fortunio Bonanova Stuart Robertson Charles McNaughton
pirate governor damsel in distress english gentleman thrilling passionate amusing jamaica island pirate ship tavern fort pirates love adventure 17th century
An ex-pirate contends with rowdy buccaneers and a love-hate relationship with an aristocratic woman who's tougher than she seems.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1933
96 Minutes
Director
Will Rogers Janet Gaynor Lew Ayres Sally Eilers Norman Foster Louise Dresser Frank Craven Victor Jory Frank Melton John Sheehan
An Iowa family finds adventure, love, and heartbreak, when they spend a week at the state fair.
Drama, History
USA
1937
95 Minutes
Director
Tyrone Power Alice Faye Don Ameche Alice Brady Andy Devine Brian Donlevy Phyllis Brooks Tom Brown Sidney Blackmer Berton Churchill June Storey
mother mayor singer saloon owner engaging fiery suspenseful chicago saloon love triangle destruction death fire historical events rivalry rise fall 1860s
The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.
Musical
USA
1956
128 Minutes
Director
Gordon MacRae Shirley Jones Cameron Mitchell Barbara Ruick Claramae Turner Robert Rounseville Gene Lockhart Audrey Christie Susan Luckey William LeMassena John Dehner
carousel barker mill worker husband wife emotional melodramatic maine coast carousel romance unemployment pregnancy crime jealousy love fall 1950s
Fifteen years after his death, a carousel barker is granted permission to return to Earth for one day to make amends to his widow and their daughter.
War
USA
1941
98 Minutes
Director
Tyrone Power Betty Grable John Sutton Reginald Gardiner Donald Stuart Ralph Byrd Richard Fraser Denis Green
pilot commander girlfriend friend engaging rousing england nightclub military base london world war ii patriotism air force duty romance love discovery transformation 1940s
An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.
Romance
USA
1955
102 Minutes
Director
Jennifer Jones William Holden Torin Thatcher Isobel Elsom Jorja Curtright Virginia Gregg Richard Loo Donna Martell
reporter doctor friend sister uncle melodramatic emotional hong kong family home office forbidden love interracial relationship war forbidden love 1950s
A widowed Chinese-English doctor falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist revolution.
Adventure, Romance, Drama
USA
1953
100 Minutes
Director
Tyrone Power Terry Moore Michael Rennie John Justin Guy Rolfe Richard Wyler Murray Matheson Frank de Kova
captain general daughter rebel thrilling fiery melodramatic khyber pass india fort racism colonialism sepoy mutiny childhood friends rebellion adventure underdog 1850s
A half-caste British officer in 19th-century India battles the prejudices of both his Army colleagues and the local populace while trying to help put down a rebellion led by a greedy local ruler.
Drama
USA
1959
125 Minutes
Director
Rock Hudson Jean Simmons Dorothy McGuire Claude Rains Kent Smith Anna Lee Ken Scott Francis Bethencourt Stacy Graham Augusta Merighi Jack Mather
british woman winemaker aunt cousin neighbor grandfather melodramatic intense fascinating napa valley, calif. winery household wine cellar field wine family business jealousy arranged marriage prohibition injury
In 1931, Elizabeth Rambeau comes from England to live in California with her aunt and uncle of a winemaking dynasty, who are still wealthy despite 12 years of Prohibition. Object: marriage ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1957
129 Minutes
Director
Tyrone Power Ava Gardner Errol Flynn Mel Ferrer Eddie Albert Gregory Ratoff Marcel Dalio Henry Daniell
reporter author seducer prostitute friend bullfighter somber passionate paris spain café disillusionment alcoholism existential crisis adventure forbidden love 1920s
A group of disillusioned American expatriate writers live a dissolute, hedonistic lifestyle in 1920s France and Spain.
Drama
USA
1924
120 Minutes
Director
Lillian Gish Dorothy Gish William Powell Ronald Colman Charles Lane Herbert Grimwood Bonaventura Ibáñez Frank Puglia Amelia Summerville Tina Ceccaci Renaldi Eduilio Mucci
In Renaissance Florence, Tito, a no-good young man pretending to be a scholar, wins the admiration of a blind man who has long looked for someone to finish his scholarly work. He has a ... See full summary »
Adventure
USA
1952
117 Minutes
Director
Gregory Peck Susan Hayward Ava Gardner Hildegarde Neff Leo G. Carroll Torin Thatcher Ava Norring Helene Stanley Marcel Dalio Vicente Gomez Richard Allan
writer wife countess traveler uncle emotional intense passionate profound tanzania, africa paris spain united states mountain life mortality the past marriage memory adventure
Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilamanjaro.
Drama
USA
1936
110 Minutes
Director
doctor constable nephew trader love interest baby charming emotional heartwarming moosetown, canada small town rural life medical profession birth winter epidemic daunting task quest rise 1930s
A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for delivering his services in a lumber town until he delivers the Dionne quintuplets.
Biography
USA
1959
123 Minutes
Director
Gregory Peck Deborah Kerr Eddie Albert Philip Ober Herbert Rudley John Sutton Karin Booth Ken Scott
author columnist editor actress producer doctor melodramatic passionate england new york city los angeles movie studio apartment chicago f. scott fitzgerald writing alcoholism sheilah graham fame hollywood
Toward the end of his life, F. Scott Fitzgerald is writing for Hollywood studios to be able to afford the cost of an asylum for his wife. He is also struggling against alcoholism. Into his life comes the famous gossip columnist.
Drama, History
USA
1951
116 Minutes
Director
Gregory Peck Susan Hayward Raymond Massey Kieron Moore James Robertson Justice Jayne Meadows John Sutton Dennis Hoey Walter Talun Paula Morgan Francis X. Bushman
king beautiful woman prophet monster passionate powerful israel royal court adultery royalty religion forbidden love transformation 10th century b.c.
After King David sees the beautiful Bathsheba bathing from the palace roof, he enters into an adulterous affair which has tragic consequences for his family and Israel.
Drama
USA
1935
80 Minutes
Director
Rochelle Hudson Henry Fonda Slim Summerville Edward Trevor Margaret Hamilton Andy Devine Russell Simpson Spring Byington Astrid Allwyn Sara Haden Al Lydell
young woman squire wife son neighbor cousin melodramatic intense new england town household street river garden rural life father/son relationship illegitimate child judgment jealousy storm
A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the woman is not quite what she seems and has a secret in her past that she hasn't told them about.
Drama
USA
1962
146 Minutes
Director
Jennifer Jones Jason Robards Joan Fontaine Jill St. John Tom Ewell Cesare Danova Paul Lukas Bea Benaderet
psychiatrist starlet heiress mentally ill person newlywed spoiled girl engaging wild party villa french riviera clinic zurich incest alcoholism mental illness infidelity jealousy humiliation love
A Psychiatrist and his life with a patient he helped to recover.
Drama
USA
1940
92 Minutes
Director
Walter Brennan Fay Bainter John Payne Brenda Joyce Charles Ruggles Hattie McDaniel Marjorie Weaver Sidney Blackmer
A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his father's trainer, he defies his mother by entering the Maryland Hunt.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1934
88 Minutes
Director
Ketti Gallian Spencer Tracy Ned Sparks
messenger singer secret agent sea captain american naval officer emotional thrilling intricate panama yucatan france boat canal café abduction journey sabotage deception espionage
Marie is kidnapped and taken aboard ship, then thrown off at Yucatan. She winds up singing in a café in the Panama Canal zone. There she gets involved in a plot to destroy the canal and runs into American intelligence officer Crawbett.
Drama
USA
1930
90 Minutes
Director
Lupe Velez Jean Hersholt John Holland Gibson Gowland Al St. John Paul E. Burns
Lovely Anita dreams of escaping the monotony of her island home and sailing to bustling Havana. But when her abusive father promises her to the greasy local merchant, Anita does everything in her power to make her dream a reality.
Romance
1936
90 Minutes
Director
Loretta Young Don Ameche Kent Taylor Pauline Frederick Jane Darwell Katherine DeMille Victor Kilian John Carradine J. Carrol Naish Pedro de Cordoba
A chief's son (Don Ameche) falls in love with a Spanish rancher's part-Indian daughter (Loretta Young).
Drama
1943
156 Minutes
Director
Jennifer Jones Charles Bickford Gladys Cooper William Eythe Vincent Price Lee J. Cobb Anne Revere Roman Bohnen
saint nun priest father mother emotional melodramatic passionate france church countryside spiritual visions saint bernadette christianity religion discovery transformation growing up 1850s
Based on the true story of a 19th-century peasant woman who claimed to see the Virgin Mary near her home in Lourdes.
Adventure
1947
140 Minutes
Director
Tyrone Power Jean Peters Cesar Romero Lee J. Cobb John Sutton Antonio Moreno Thomas Gomez Alan Mowbray
nightclub employee beatnik conjoined twins press agent nun rousing passionate spain mexico battlefield countryside spanish culture conquest running quest pursuit 16th century
A 16th-century Spanish nobleman (Tyrone Power) escapes the Inquisition by exploring the New World with Cortez (Cesar Romero).
Romance
1946
94 Minutes
Director
Jeanne Crain Glenn Langan Lynn Bari Alan Young Barbara Lawrence Conrad Janis Esther Dale Hobart Cavanaugh Ann E. Todd Hattie McDaniel Don Hayden
teen girl teacher boy father friend grandmother charming endearing touching high school attic skating rink teen romance popularity homecoming memory father/daughter relationship love growing up rivalry
A shy high-school debater (Jeanne Crain) has a crush on her French teacher (Glenn Langan) during the Roaring '20s.
Adventure
1955
111 Minutes
Director
Tyrone Power Susan Hayward Richard Egan John Justin Agnes Moorehead Rita Moreno Hope Emerson Brad Dexter Henry O'Neill Paul Thompson
settler farmer horse trader irishwoman native warrior melodramatic spirited moving intense ireland south africa ranch jungle romance journey emigration famine struggle adventure
A Boer leader (Tyrone Power) loves an Irishwoman (Susan Hayward) on a trek through Zulu country in 19th-century South Africa.
Biography
1944
154 Minutes
Director
Alexander Knox Charles Coburn Geraldine Fitzgerald Thomas Mitchell Ruth Nelson Cedric Hardwicke Vincent Price William Eythe Mary Anderson Ruth Ford Sidney Blackmer
woodrow wilson politician wife military officer opponent patriotic confident princeton, n.j. washington, d.c. white house politics ambition love marriage world war i rise rivalry 1910s
Woodrow Wilson (Alexander Knox) goes from Princeton to the White House and promotes the League of Nations.
Drama
1936
115 Minutes
Director
Tyrone Power Madeleine Carroll Freddie Bartholomew Guy Standing C. Aubrey Smith Virginia Field Douglas Scott George Sanders
lord aristocratic lady barmaid insurance broker aristocrat brash charming patriotic england flanders napoleonic wars battle of trafalgar georgian england shipping insurance adventure love rise rivalry 1800s
A London messenger boy (Freddie Bartholomew) becomes an underwriter (Tyrone Power) of British ships during the Napoleonic Wars.